What do you do if a web address you printed on a physical flyer contains a typo and send this flyer to more than 100,000 households? Well if you are the Swiss canton (“state”) of Basel-StadtYou buy the domain that contains the typing error and create a detour to the correct URL.
As a Swiss news sale SRF According to reports, the Basel Tax Administration leaflets printed that should contain a URL for the online submission of taxes. However, the Swiss LandCode Top Level Domain (CCTTLD) from “.ch” was omitted, so that only the Basel-TabAdt suffix of “.b”-the CCTLD of the Bahamas is by chance.
A spokesman for the Ministry of Finance in Basel-Stadt announced SRF that it would cost the equivalent of around $ 100,000 to print and send a number of new flyers. So it was a child’s play to spend $ 1,000 to manage the new domain instead.
The new URL with diversion is not yet alive, as it will apparently take some time until the registration process is completed.
